![]() However, few studies have investigated the effects of celebrity suicides and the media reporting of them in Asia ( Takahashi, 1998, Au et al., 2004), despite extensive mass media exposure and traditional idolization of celebrities within the region. ![]() The relationship between media reporting of non-fictional suicides and subsequent suicides can reasonably be regarded as causal ( Hawton and Williams, 2005, p. ![]() ![]() Suicide deaths by charcoal burning have increased from 3% in 1997 to 24% in 2002 of the total suicide death ( Yip et al., 2005). People come to learn the details of methods of suicide through media reporting of them, such as asphyxiation from the smoke of burning charcoal, especially in places like Hong Kong and Taiwan ( Chan et al., 2005). Moreover, young people seem to be more vulnerable to media influences ( Hawton and Williams, 2005, Zahl and Hawton, 2004). Furthermore, the impact of suicides of entertainment celebrities appears to have a larger impact than that of other types of celebrity ( Stack, 1987, Wasserman, 1984). It appears that media reports on celebrity suicides are more likely to have such an effect than those of non-celebrity suicides ( Stack, 2000, Wasserman, 1984). Evidence has been found of an increase in overall suicide rates following reporting of celebrity suicides ( Jobes et al., 1996, Phillips, 1974, Stack, 1987, Takahashi, 1998, Tousignant et al., 2005) and non-suicide deaths ( Hawton et al., 2000).
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